bombarda

(Navarrete.) [163-2] _Lombarda_ is the same as _bombarda_, bombard, the earliest type of cannon.

The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 Various 1884

The name has nothing to do with Lombardy, but is simply the form which was used in Castile in the fifteenth century while _bombarda_ was used elsewhere in the peninsula and in Europe.

The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 Various 1884

The others laughed, and, after a good deal of eager chattering on the subject, it was quite generally admitted that the stranger was a _bona fide_ craft, of some species or another, though all agreed she was not a felucca, a bombarda, or a sparanara.

The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet James Fenimore Cooper 1820

Mediterranean are proverbial for their picturesque beauty and quaintness, embracing the xebeque, the felucca, the polacre, and the bombarda, or ketch; all unknown, or nearly so, to our own seas; and occasionally the lugger.

The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet James Fenimore Cooper 1820

We call a felucca, a felucca; a bombarda, a bombarda; a polacre, a polacre; and a lugger, a lugger.

The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet James Fenimore Cooper 1820

There are felucca-luggers, and polacre-luggers, and bombarda-luggers, and all sorts of luggers; which sort of lugger is this? "

The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet James Fenimore Cooper 1820